From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 14 14:30:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06F637B401; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:30:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D454743ED4; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H74RT200.QMF; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:29:26 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:25:26 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <9710634521.20021214232526@dds.nl> To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Johnson David , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: 80386 out of GENERIC In-Reply-To: <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear/Beste phk, Saturday, December 14, 2002, 10:14:20 PM, you wrote: > In message <635948263.20021214220720@dds.nl>, Alex writes: >> >>Dear/Beste Johnson, >> >>I read this on the advocacy list. >> >>Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 7:56:44 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Support for the 80386 processor has been removed from the GENERIC kernel. The >>> default FreeBSD kernel is now more optimized for modern CPUs. No longer do >>> you have to settle for performance draining compatibility with hardware you >>> haven't owned in a decade. >> >>I don't feel this is a good decision. (I still have a 486, act as a >>small server and a 286 witch is in storage) This basally means that >>any one who doesn't have the latest processor can't install FreeBSD. > No it doesn't mean that. > FreeBSD still runs on all 386 family CPUs, the only difference is that > if you want to run it on a 80386 you need to enable an option in > your kernel config file. > It will out of the box run on 486 and anything later. It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to get that version to the 386. My assumption was for such case. Lets say a home user with a pentium II with Windows 98 and his old 386 as a FreeBSD server. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message